Today, we welcome twins, Calum & Beth, to our printshop where they engage in a spot of bookbinding; sewing sigs, guillotining and foil blocking on the hand platen. They have promised to write and illustrate stories in their books, which we have promised to read.
Friday, 16 July 2010
The Turn Of A Page . . . Nothing Beats It!
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Seep Deep
where's Andrew's number? been sitting here so long, I've a cricked neck. . .
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Our Guests Today . . . Syd Sharp & Jim Currie
We welcome a couple of illustrious guests to our printroom today, Mr Syd Sharp and Mr Jim Currie.
Syd and Jim started their printing careers in the early 1960s when the city of Glasgow had a thriving print trade and letterpress was king.
Serving their time as apprentices in Aird & Coghill and The Glasgow Numerical respectively, they worked for many of the mighty traditional printing companies, the majority of which have now sadly gone.
Syd and Jim also lectured for many years at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing where they passed on their boundless knowledge of letterpress and hand book-binding to another couple of generations of printers.
We hear some great tales today, from the Music Engraver who insisted his was the only job that would always be safe in the advancing world of print technology to the wild wayzgoose outings on a ferry down the River Clyde. Hope to share more of these stories at a later date.
Thanks again for stopping by Gents, for your teaching, your advice, and your tales - see you again soon.
p.s. they thought our stuff was great!

Serving their time as apprentices in Aird & Coghill and The Glasgow Numerical respectively, they worked for many of the mighty traditional printing companies, the majority of which have now sadly gone.
Syd and Jim also lectured for many years at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing where they passed on their boundless knowledge of letterpress and hand book-binding to another couple of generations of printers.
We hear some great tales today, from the Music Engraver who insisted his was the only job that would always be safe in the advancing world of print technology to the wild wayzgoose outings on a ferry down the River Clyde. Hope to share more of these stories at a later date.
Thanks again for stopping by Gents, for your teaching, your advice, and your tales - see you again soon.
p.s. they thought our stuff was great!
Monday, 5 July 2010
Fearless
We had a lot of fun producing another amazing design by taxi studio.
Packing a good letterpress-style punch, he's reproduced here in three inks; red, grey and black. 
Clean lines of pristine white foil proclaim contact details, and match the reverse of a Colorplan duplex 540gsm weight board, bright red to bright white.
Letterheads, Compliment Slips and Business Cards all feature the world's most fearless creature, the honey badger.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Appreciate
World Cup football and the buzzz of the vuvuzela (making you really appreciate the drone of the bagpipes) means South Africa is ever present on our minds this summer. Reminded us of a beautiful card we made for Jenson8 and designed by Taxi with inspirational words from Nelson Mandela.
"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You can take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership"
Foiled in striking white on bright red Colorplan 540gsm.
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